From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, hughd@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net_sched: sch_fq: use hash_ptr()
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 13:29:29 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161117.132929.1483259003226796827.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1479404910.8455.269.camel@edumazet-glaptop3.roam.corp.google.com>
From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 09:48:30 -0800
> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
>
> When I wrote sch_fq.c, hash_ptr() on 64bit arches was awful,
> and I chose hash_32().
>
> Linus Torvalds and George Spelvin fixed this issue, so we can
> use hash_ptr() to get more entropy on 64bit arches with Terabytes
> of memory, and avoid the cast games.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Applied, thanks Eric.
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2016-11-17 17:48 [PATCH net-next] net_sched: sch_fq: use hash_ptr() Eric Dumazet
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